picking on
Example Sentences
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The ETF market can also be mean, picking on specific people.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2025
England have shown, however, they don't mind picking on potential - just look at the success of 20-year-old off-spinner Shoaib Bashir on the tour of India.
From BBC • May 13, 2024
He told the officers they would “regret picking on me because you don’t know who … I am.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023
“Once they start picking on you,” said a former resident, Matasha Harris, “they will not leave you alone.”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023
The holding cell was cold, and I had to share it with this kid who kept crying and another who was picking on the crier.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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